单词 | apoplex |
释义 | apoplexn. archaic. a. = apoplexy n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > apoplexy apoplexyc1386 poplexyc1410 apoplex?1537 sudden stroke1543 catarrh1554 strong apoplexy1583 strong1820 ?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe ii. xxx. f. 47 Immoderate slepe maketh the body apt unto palseys, apoplexis, fallynge sycknes. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. iv. sig. C2 How do's his Apoplexe ? View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vi. 209 An Apoplex [may] leave neither Sense, nor Understanding, no nor Life. 1790 S. T. Coleridge Happiness I. 34 Apoplex of heavy head That surely aims his dart of lead. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1688 J. Dryden Britannia Rediviva 10 And here the Sons of God are petrify'd with Woe; An Appoplex of Grief. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021). apoplexv. archaic. To strike with apoplexy, paralyze, benumb. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > afflict with disorder of nervous system [verb (transitive)] > apoplexy apoplex1604 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 70 + 3 Sure that sence Is appoplext. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iii. 160 Finding her husband..apoplext in all his limbes. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον viii. 403 To apoplex all the vitall spirits. 1813 Ld. Byron Let. in Wks. (1832) II. 269 If suddenly apoplexed, would he rest in his grave? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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